Interaction between humans and the environment

Civilization: Mesopotamia

Author: Jenna Beat


Theme
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1. Demography and Disease
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2. Migration
  • The Indo-European people began to steadily migrate to Mesopotamia. It inflenced much historical developments.
3. Patterns of Settlement
  • The civilizian began in the valley areas between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers and after the effects of the advanced farming, it quickly grew into a much larger and more powerful civilizian.
4. Technology
  • Indo-European people became interested in the Mesopotamian technology such as the wheel and metallurgy.
  • The people of Mesopotamia used farming and the environment to their advantage by using the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers for artifical irrigation (tapping rivers, building reservoirs, digging canals, etc.)